2923.129
Immunity.

(1)
If a sheriff, the superintendent of the bureau of criminal identification and
investigation, the employees of the bureau, the Ohio peace officer training
commission, or the employees of the commission make a good faith effort in
performing the duties imposed upon the sheriff, the superintendent, the
bureau's employees, the commission, or the commission's employees by sections
109.731,
311.41, and
2923.124 to
2923.1213 of the Revised Code,
in addition to the personal immunity provided by section
9.86 of the Revised Code or
division (A)(6) of section
2744.03 of the Revised Code and
the governmental immunity of sections
2744.02 and
2744.03 of the Revised Code and
in addition to any other immunity possessed by the bureau, the commission, and
their employees, the sheriff, the sheriff's office, the county in which the
sheriff has jurisdiction, the bureau, the superintendent of the bureau, the
bureau's employees, the commission, and the commission's employees are immune
from liability in a civil action for injury, death, or loss to person or
property that allegedly was caused by or related to any of the following:

(a)
The issuance, renewal, suspension, or revocation of a concealed handgun
license;

(b)
The
failure to issue, renew, suspend, or revoke a concealed handgun
license;

(2)
Any
action of a sheriff relating to the issuance, renewal, suspension, or
revocation of a concealed handgun license shall be considered to be a
governmental function for purposes of Chapter 2744. of the Revised
Code.

(3)
An
entity that or instructor who provides a competency certification of a type
described in division (B)(3) of section
2923.125 of the Revised Code is
immune from civil liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed for any
death or any injury or loss to person or property that is caused by or related
to a person to whom the entity or instructor has issued the competency
certificate if all of the following apply:

(a)
The alleged liability of the entity or instructor relates to the training
provided in the course, class, or program covered by the competency
certificate.

(b)
The
entity or instructor makes a good faith effort in determining whether the
person has satisfactorily completed the course, class, or program and makes a
good faith effort in assessing the person in the competency examination
conducted pursuant to division (G)(2) of section
2923.125 of the Revised
Code.

(c)
The
entity or instructor did not issue the competency certificate with malicious
purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner.

(4)
An entity that or instructor who, prior to March 27,
2013, provides a renewed competency certification of a type described in
division (G)(4) of section
2923.125 of the Revised Code as
it existed prior to March 27, 2013, is immune
from civil liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed for any death
or any injury or loss to person or property that is caused by or related to a
person to whom the entity or instructor has issued the renewed competency
certificate if all of the following apply:

(a)
The entity or instructor makes a good faith effort in assessing the person in
the physical demonstrations or the competency examination conducted pursuant to
division (G)(4) of section
2923.125 of the Revised Code as
it existed prior to March 27, 2013.

(b)
The entity or instructor did not issue the renewed competency certificate with
malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner.

(5)
A law
enforcement agency that employs a peace officer is immune from liability in a
civil action to recover damages for injury, death, or loss to person or
property allegedly caused by any act of that peace officer if the act occurred
while the peace officer carried a concealed handgun and was off duty and if the
act allegedly involved the peace officer's use of the concealed handgun.
Sections 9.86 and
9.87, and Chapter 2744., of the
Revised Code apply to any civil action involving a peace officer's use of a
concealed handgun in the performance of the peace officer's official duties
while the peace officer is off duty.

(B)
Notwithstanding
section 149.43 of the Revised Code,
the records that a sheriff keeps relative to the issuance,
renewal, suspension, or revocation of a concealed handgun license, including,
but not limited to, completed applications for the issuance or renewal of a
license, completed affidavits submitted regarding an application for a license
on a temporary emergency basis, reports of criminal records checks and
incompetency records checks under section
311.41 of the Revised Code, and
applicants' social security numbers and fingerprints that are obtained under
division (A) of section
311.41 of the Revised Code, are
confidential and are not public records. No person shall release or otherwise disseminate
records that are confidential under this division unless required to do so
pursuant to a court order.

(C)
Each sheriff shall report to the Ohio peace officer training commission the
number of concealed handgun licenses that the sheriff issued, renewed,
suspended, revoked, or denied under section
2923.125 of the Revised Code
during the previous quarter of the calendar year, the number of applications
for those licenses for which processing was suspended in accordance with
division (D)(3) of section
2923.125 of the Revised Code
during the previous quarter of the calendar year, and the number of concealed
handgun licenses on a temporary emergency basis that the sheriff issued,
suspended, revoked, or denied under section
2923.1213 of the Revised Code
during the previous quarter of the calendar year. The sheriff shall not include
in the report the name or any other identifying information of an applicant or
licensee. The sheriff shall report that information in a manner that permits
the commission to maintain the statistics described in division (C) of section
109.731 of the Revised Code and
to timely prepare the statistical report described in that division. The
information that is received by the commission under this division is a public
record kept by the commission for the purposes of section
149.43 of the Revised
Code.

(D)
Law
enforcement agencies may use the information a sheriff makes available through
the use of the law enforcement automated data system pursuant to division (H)
of section 2923.125 or division (B)(2) or
(D) of section 2923.1213 of the Revised Code
for law enforcement purposes only. The information is confidential and is not a
public record. A person who releases or otherwise disseminates this information
obtained through the law enforcement automated data system in a manner not
described in this division is guilty of a violation of section
2913.04 of the Revised
Code.

(E)
Whoever
violates division (B) of this section is guilty of illegal release of
confidential concealed handgun license records, a felony of the fifth degree.
In addition to any penalties imposed under Chapter 2929. of the Revised Code
for a violation of division (B) of this section or a violation of section
2913.04 of the Revised Code
described in division (D) of this section, if the offender is a sheriff, an
employee of a sheriff, or any other public officer or employee, and if the
violation was willful and deliberate, the offender shall be subject to a civil
fine of one thousand dollars. Any person who is harmed by a violation of
division (B) or (C) of this section or a violation of section
2913.04 of the Revised Code
described in division (D) of this section has a private cause of action against
the offender for any injury, death, or loss to person or property that is a
proximate result of the violation and may recover court costs and attorney's
fees related to the action.